Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-17
F0kTf-slsTiI COsGRESs.
second Session.
SEN ATE.
WASHINGTON, W Feb. l6

commerce, reported back the House r;y. ;
anu haI Dor tiil with amendments and gave
| notice that he would move to take il M 20.
morrow after the morning hour.
On motion OF MIR. Evsr,s the printing of
testimony taken in the Texas inyestiya7in,
was ordered
Inc resolutions offered yesterday by Mr.
tioar 10 have the committee on rriyIIeg.s
anu elections inquire To whether the d,s
tf.ct attorney Or marshal of the western DIS.
'i'c' oi lexas has been attempting to OBJ
S'i'c' 'he investigation cr to intiIndate IT,
was taken up.
Senator Hale has offered an amendmen,
10 the river AMI harbor bill appropristiny
Sl00.000 fer Improvement. and a breakw.,ar
tor Bar Hsrbor
MIR. Hoar's resolution wa. adouted bv a
party vote-30 to 49,
Ihe Senate then resumed the confederation
OF the bill 10 Increase the naval establish.
iheht, the question being taken on the amend
Inent OILS red yesterday bv Mr. Hale. and il,
was adopted without diyi.ion. Other amend.
ments were adopted and the bill passed.
II reads That the President is hereby
authorized to have constructed bv cUntrac,
ten protected steel cruisers with such arma-
ment for each AS the navy department may
dee m suitable, each of said vessels to have a
max speed of not leas than twenty
Knot, over measured mile. such speed to
De exhibited under such test or tests and con-
ultiohs as the navy department may impose; :;
the cost of all of said cruisers in aggregate
Complete, exclusive of armament, Shall NOT
be more than Sl5.000,O00, winch sum i,
hereby appropriated CUT of auy money in the
| treasury not otherwise appropriated to NJ.
available during five years from March 4 :,
| 1887.
| Section 2-That in the construction of
aforesaid vessels all provisions of the act of
| Aug D, 1856, entitled IAN act to increase the
naval establishment, as to material tor said
vessels, their engines, boilers and machinery,
the contracts under which they are built. the
notice OF and proposals for such plans, draw
ings and specifications therefor and the
method OF executing said contracts shall be
| observed and followed and said vessels shall
| be built in compliance with the terms of said
| act as lar as same relate to vessels construct
ed under contract, save that in all their parts,
| they shall be of American manufacture
Section 3-The contract for the construc
ton of said vessels shall contain provisions
to the effect that the contractor guarantees
that when completed and tested for speed
under the conditions to be prescribed by the
navy department, the vessels shall exhibit a
maximum speed OF at least 20 knots an hour
and for every quarter knot of speed so ex-
| hiblted above the said guarantee the ccntrac-
tor shall receive premium over ana above
his contract price of $50, 900, aud for every
quarter knot that sad vessel fails of reaching
said guaranteed speed. there snail be de-
Quoted from the contract price the sum Of
/ S5O, 600; and for the purposes provided in
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support OF the amendment.
Mr.. Hale opposed the amendment. He
admitted that II there were to be great sea
| nights AZ In ike The trafalgar, the great
armored vessels possessed by some of the
European governments would be found TO be
most destructive.
During tie course of discussion Mr.. Vest
attacked the republican party Tor maladmn-
lstration OF the navy department, saying that
there was not IN the history OF the civilized
world page OF maladministration equal to